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Vice Chancellor Kogi State University Kabba (KOSU) Professor Kehinde Eniola has warned that the proposed scrapping of TETFund by the federal government would be catastrophic to tertiary institutions in the country.
Professor Eniola, who stated this Monday during the 2nd pre-matriculation press briefing held at the campus of the university in Kabba, said the impact made so far by TETFund in various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria cannot be over emphasised.
He advised the federal government to regulate or stop foreign training of lecturers and invest such funds in developing public tertiary institutions to make them viable for training and retraining of lecturers and other staff.
“The area of TETFund the federal government should scrape is foreign training because the cost of sending lecturers for training abroad if injected into tertiary institutions will effect development.
“Secondly, most knowledge acquired abroad as a result of training are not applicable or relevant here in our country. Therefore, we need to look inward and solve our problems within the country.
“TETFund intervention is what is keeping tertiary institutions moving in this country and scraping it will have catastrophic effects to the beneficiaries,” the VC said.
Speaking on the second matriculation of the Kogi State University, Kabba, slated for Tuesday 25th February, 2025, the vice chancellor stated that1,060 new students of the institution would be matriculating for 2024/2025 academic session out of 3,772 candidates that applied for admission.
He noted that the matriculation would avail the institution the opportunity to cerebrate students who are performing well in their various departments, adding that the university would train students that would contribute to the development of Kogi state and Nigeria at large.
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